News Helper

Identify hoaxes / fake news and safeguard your news reading experience

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Fake news - for example: full of dubious sources or entirely lacking of evidence
Download browser extension and bring News Helper home

Function Overview

Real-time false news detection
When you browse sites like Facebook, the local server will check in your browser whether any news has been reported fake. Rest assured that no browsing data will be sent to any remote server.
Intergrated report button
The fake news report button is seamless integrated on Facebook, so you can easily report fake news as you browse.
Bakcground notification message
News Helper is silently updating its local database. If it finds a reporting of a news story that you have read, it will pop up a message to help you fight off misinformation.
In this age of flooding misinformation, News Helper use the power of crowd-sourcing to provide a platform for all to report dubious or down-right untrue news articles. Using the browser extension to monitor every news site, the News Helper will timely remind you to keep an critical eye when reading news off the internet. We hope that collectively we can maintain a quality news reading experience online.
News Helper is doing all the news checking locally. Now browsing data will be sent over the internet. All browser plugins are open sourced projects. Feel free to read the source code to erase any concerns.

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